Gun Fired Into Moving Car

Two Escape Injury Police

A Lower Saucon Township man and the passenger in his car escaped injury Monday night when someone fired a gun into the side of the car, blowing a three-inch hole in the rear passenger door.

Township police said Jeffrey A. Howell, 18, of 110 Puggy Lane, was driving south on Route 378 at Puggy Lane about 11:30 p.m. with his passenger, Moira Leach of 509 Columbia Ave., Palmerton, when a medium to large light-colored station wagon pulled alongside. The gun was fired from inside the station wagon.

Anyone with any information on the incident is asked to call Lower Saucon police at 694-0292.